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Slack Introduces New Enterprise-Grade Product for Large, Complex Organizations
Wednesday, February 1, 2017Company Profile | Follow Company
A new product from Slack to power work across large organizations
San Francisco (& Vancouver, BC), CA, February 1, 2017--(T-Net)--Slack announced today a new enterprise-grade product to bring the power and utility of Slack to large, complex organizations. It's called Slack Enterprise Grid.
The company reported that dozens of companies like PayPal, Capital One, and IBM have already rolled out Grid, and they've been listening to their feedback on how it helps their many teams work together.
“Whether physical or digital, our teams expect workspaces that empower them to communicate efficiently, connect and ideate easily, and build new products quickly —wherever they are—and Slack is a great example of how they want to work,” says Jennifer Manry, Vice President of Workforce Technology at Capital One. “With Enterprise Grid, Slack has preserved the sense of community, interactivity, and humanity of the workspace that our teams love, with the administrative capabilities we need as a larger enterprise.”
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Editor's Note: Slack has major offices in the Yaletown area of Vancouver, BC
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Stewart Butterfield, Slack CEO and co-founder. Butterfield, who was born in BC, was also a Co-Founder of Flickr, a photo sharing platform that also began in Vancouver (and later sold to Yahoo).
See below for additional details on how Slack Enterprise Grid works (from the Slack website Blog).
How Grid works
Enterprise Grid adapts to how a large business is organized, providing enormous flexibility to create communication structures that mirror how teams already collaborate. It offers centralized controls to ensure that a company's data remains secure, giving administrators a single point of visibility to manage Slack. And finally, it integrates with other applications teams use at work, delivering information and better workflows right within Slack.
Several new features make this possible, including:
Unlimited workspaces for teams
Enterprise Grid comes with unlimited workspaces that can be built around the unique setup of your business, bringing together any department, team, location, or group within your organization. For individual users, these workspaces offer much of the same day-to-day Slack experience that millions have come to know and love, including conversation channels, threaded messaging, voice and video calling, and support for platform integrations.
What's different is that at the organizational level, administrators can control permissions and configure integrations on a per-workspace basis.This gives each team a focused place to work, where they can access the people, information, and applications that matter the most to their projects.
Shared channels for collaboration
For projects that involve multiple teams or departments, Grid provides administrators with the ability to create shared channels between workspaces whenever needed. These channels help teams share information with each other and make decisions efficiently, without exposing one team to extra noise or sensitive information that may be part of the other's workspace.
A unified infrastructure for your whole organization
Previously, large organizations tended to have multiple teams that used separate, unconnected instances of Slack. Now with Grid, a new single layer spans the entire company, and enables people to find each other, information, and workspaces relevant to their role or team. Search, one-to-one and group direct messaging, and discoverable workspaces all exist in this layer, which means that people can sign into Slack once and have access to all the tools, people, and spaces they need to do their job.
Administrative controls and security integrations
With Grid, your company and your data are protected on all levels. In a single view, you can manage security, policy, and compliance across your whole company. And if you need additional control, you can customize security features and policies, like data retention settings, for each workspace.
Organizations in highly regulated industries can take advantage of Slack's FINRA and HIPAA certifications. Grid also supports integrations with eDiscovery, data loss prevention (DLP), and offsite backup providers, including Palo Alto Networks, Bloomberg Vault, Skyhigh, Netskope, Relativity by KCura, and more.
New connections to the applications used at work
Grid lets you connect Slack with your pre-existing tech stack, while our App Directory, now listing over 900 integrations, helps teams find new tools to use at work. Slack's platform includes products built to solve emerging workflow needs, like CareerLark and Marker, alongside integrations with established products like Salesforce, IBM, Box, Adobe, and GSuite.
With Grid, we're also adding a new partnership with SAP, featuring a portfolio of integrations across Hana Cloud Platform, SuccessFactors, and Concur. These bots will bring real-time reporting and feedback on performance goals, message-based expense and travel management, and options for running chatops development workflows in Slack.
If you're a developer interested in building applications that work with Enterprise Grid, head over to our platform blog for more details on new toolkits and services you can use to build apps that are Grid-ready.
About Slack
Slack is a messaging platform for teams that brings all communication together, creating a single unified archive accessible through powerful search. It integrates with dozens of popular services such as Twitter, Dropbox, Trello, Asana, Google Docs, JIRA, MailChimp, Stripe, Zendesk, and others to help consolidate and make sense of the ever-growing flows of data that confront modern teams. Based in San Francisco, and with offices in Vancouver, Slack has raised $340 million from some of the world's best recognized investors including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital, KPCB, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, IVP, Spark, DST, and Index.
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